Audiences are harder to please if you’re just giving them effects, but they’re easy to please if it’s a good story. ~Steven Spielberg Most unforgettable stories go like this…. An interesting, three-dimensional protagonist is prompted by an outside force to...
Host Heather Abraham of Talk Pittsburgh on KDKA TV talks with Steve Cuden, a Point Park University Cinema Art Department faculty member, about why some musicals do not find success on the big screen. Watch below or see the clip on CBS News Pittsburg here.
Mastering screenwriting fundamentals sets both you and your writing free—a crucial step on the road to success. The Importance of Screenwriting Fundamentals Many people think that by possessing paper and pen or a computer or an electronic pad or anything with word...
“A dramatic story is any series of events having vivid, emotional, conflicting, striking interest or results.” ~William Froug, Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade Setting the Parameters: The Story’s Sandbox Story is the sandbox that screenwriters play in. When...
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed.” ~Ernest Hemingway The Myth of Easy Screenwriting How hard can it be to write a screenplay? It must be easy to write some of the stuff we see in the theater and on TV, don’t you think?...